Historical & comparative linguistics books

This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication from prehistory...  Read More >>

The Semitic Sibilants deals with the diverse hissing and hushing sounds of the Semitic language family in Southwest...  Read More >>

Papua New Guinean, Chinese and Australian people have long been entangled in the creation of complex histories and...  Read More >>

If you're looking for a gift this year that ""Gag Gift Forgettables"" magazine called, ""Simply Stupid!"" or ""Useless...  Read More >>

Die Neuassyrische Grammatik bietet die erste vollstandige grammatische Beschreibung der semitischen Sprache des...  Read More >>

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Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch,...  Read More >>

This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It...  Read More >>

This collection of 3,000 Herefordshire words and phrases draws on a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and...  Read More >>

The book offers a focused treatment of the role of indexicality, providing general theoretical discussions of the...  Read More >>

This volume discusses the role of contrast within the conceptual framework of Information Structure. It provides...  Read More >>

As a complement to Pharies's 2002 Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles (Madrid: Gredos), this book completes...  Read More >>

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share...  Read More >>

First published in 1970, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 2) is the first systematic and...  Read More >>

First published in 1970, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol. 1) is the first systematic and...  Read More >>

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First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed...  Read More >>

The Gravitational Pull Hypothesis is an attempt to provide a cognitive account for features of translated language....  Read More >>

This book is an assortment of a few literary pieces authored by Mirza Khaleel Ahmed Baig regarding the topics of...  Read More >>

This book contains three important essays about the development and promotion of the Urdu language. This book addresses...  Read More >>

This book covers a variety of subjects, including the distinction between Urdu and Hindi Devanagari script, the...  Read More >>

Late Modern English has traditionally been considered a period of linguistic stability in terms of language standardization....  Read More >>

This book investigates the development of fricatives in Gothic. The author claims that a Gothic/Greek bilingual...  Read More >>